00:00:47.000We'll also be talking about the Ricky Vaughn arrest.
00:00:51.000Which was a smaller story, and I don't know if it got as much coverage as this, but I think Tucker Carlson covered it last night, and even some more mainstream people picked up on it, which was kind of surprising, but we'll be talking all about that as well.
00:01:08.000And it's going to be a good show because although the times are getting difficult and tough and bad and worse, and seems like worse every passing second, the show remains very good.
00:01:24.000In fact, it almost seems to be getting better in a lot of ways.
00:01:29.000As time goes on and the situation deteriorates, it's almost as though the show is increasing.
00:01:38.000The show is ascending in an inverse manner.
00:01:42.000Inversely, as everything else gets worse, the show gets more good, better.
00:01:49.000So we have that to look forward to tonight.
00:01:52.000Before we get into all of that, I just want to remind you about the usual stuff.
00:01:56.000Make sure to follow me on Telegram at T.me slash Nick J. Fuentes for updates about the show and posts, content, all of that.
00:02:08.000You know, I've been telling you this, but Telegram is basically the primary social media now because my days are numbered on Twitter.
00:02:17.000Twitter's the only other thing I'm even on.
00:02:19.000I mean, that's the last major platform that I even have.
00:02:22.000I don't know how I still have it, but that's the last one.
00:02:26.000It's probably going to go anytime soon.
00:02:29.000So, make sure you're following me on Telegram because if you're not, then you just simply won't know, right?
00:02:37.000If I'm banned from Twitter and you're not following me on Telegram, you won't be able to hear from me on Telegram that I was banned on Twitter.
00:03:06.000That is probably going to be the last, last ditch effort that I will use to get in touch with you if I'm banned from everything.
00:03:16.000If Gab goes down, if tele, well, I mean, Gab, if it ever comes up and then goes down, if Telegram goes away, the email list is going to be the only way that I can reach you.
00:03:27.000If you give me your email, then of course I can find some way to get an electronic communication to you through that.
00:04:35.000They're saying, oh my gosh, there's no show.
00:04:37.000We tuned in at 8 o'clock central to AmericaFirst.live, and there's no show.
00:04:43.000I should add, before I move on totally, Make sure to follow the America First Updates Telegram channel as well, because I don't always put every update about the show on my Telegram channel.
00:04:56.000But if you go to the America First Updates Telegram channel, that tells you exactly when the show goes live, if the show is canceled, anything show related will be on that channel.
00:05:11.000So make sure you're following that one as well.
00:05:13.000But in any case, I don't know how I got on that subject, but I wasn't here for the past couple of days.
00:05:21.000And like I said, I know people were maybe confused or upset about that.
00:05:24.000If you didn't see the post in Telegram, it's just been very chaotic over here.
00:05:29.000So, actually, doing the show isn't really the first priority at this point because we're trying to make all kinds of preparations for the show to go on forever.
00:05:40.000And that's by getting the streaming site set up.
00:05:45.000And I've also been working on a number of other, like, defensive type things because you've got to understand, I mean, you see the show and you see my posts on Twitter.
00:05:55.000And it seems, I'm sure, to you guys, like everything is just normal, you know?
00:06:04.000But besides that, you see my posts on Twitter, which is political, it's funny, it's the usual stuff.
00:06:11.000And you tune into this show on a different platform, and it's the same show.
00:06:15.000But you gotta understand that behind the scenes, I am just getting attacked from every angle, everything you can imagine, and even probably things that you. Can't imagine or think are not happening or can't happen.
00:06:30.000You know, bad things are happening behind the scenes.
00:09:18.000It's great that it's reached a mass audience, that a massive amount of people see what's going on.
00:09:24.000But there's a little part of me that's like, once it gets out to the masses and like certain people in my family know about it, like turbo normies that are family friends or family, once they catch wind of it and they're asking me about it, it's like, it feels less cool.
00:09:42.000It doesn't feel like it's, you know, now that it's out there, I don't feel that sense of like, I'm like an insider.
00:09:51.000I've kind of like, you know, I've got this esoteric knowledge.
00:09:55.000Now it's just like, oh, everybody knows about it, you know?
00:09:58.000So, anyway, it's still a good thing, but I just kind of feel like that sometimes.
00:10:04.000That's the main story, and we'll get into everything.
00:10:06.000I'm going to explain what's going on because I know a lot of people are very invested in it, you know, no pun intended.
00:10:14.000And I know some people don't really understand what's going on, they don't understand the sort of market fundamentals behind this and the technical aspect of it.
00:10:24.000So, I want to later on explain what the situation is, and there's a few different angles to it.
00:10:30.000There's deplatforming going on, there's this David versus Goliath battle in the stock market, and then there's the potential for law enforcement intervention on either side, whether it be the brokerages or on the people that are doing this short squeeze operation.
00:10:49.000And then there's an angle even about populism on the left and the right.
00:10:54.000There's a lot to talk about with that, but before we get into our main story, I want to talk about Ricky Vaughn.
00:10:59.000And I don't know how many of you guys saw this because it's funny.
00:11:04.000There's a lot of people in this movement that don't even know who Ricky Vaughn is.
00:11:09.000And I never thought it would be that way because I feel like I haven't even been doing this show for that long.
00:11:14.000I've only been doing the show for about four years, which in the grand scheme of things isn't a very long time.
00:11:19.000But I've now been doing the show long enough that somebody like Ricky Vaughn, who was very prominent in the scene when I got started, There's a lot of people that are in the scene now, and they've been in America First for a year or two years, and they have no idea who this guy is.
00:11:36.000You know, like Jaden is a perfect example.
00:11:38.000Jaden has become a staple in America First.
00:11:53.000And I'm not, that's not, you know, I'm not attacking him.
00:11:57.000I'm just saying it's kind of funny how that works.
00:11:59.000Like three or four years ago, Ricky Vaughn, during the 2016 election and even afterwards in the post Charlottesville days, he was a very prominent and important figure.
00:12:11.000And, you know, it's so much time has passed that even people that have been around for a while don't remember.
00:12:18.000But in case you guys don't know, Ricky Vaughn, he was a really big deal during the 2016 election.
00:12:24.000He was ranked by Time Magazine as, I think, one of the top 100 most influential Twitter accounts.
00:12:51.000But he's got the famous profile picture.
00:12:53.000It's Charlie Sheen playing the character Ricky Vaughn.
00:12:56.000And during the 2016 election, he was a huge Trump supporter and meme war veteran.
00:13:02.000He made a lot of memes, a lot of viral content.
00:13:06.000And this is even recognized by the mainstream press, like in the case of Time, that he was one of the biggest accounts in the entire world on any social media and on Twitter that was influencing the outcome of the election in favor of Trump.
00:13:20.000And that was how a lot of people remember him during the election.
00:13:25.000He played a very important role then and a very big name then.
00:13:29.000And then after the election, he played, I think, a very big role in the dissident right community online because, of course, You know, we saw in the one or two years after the 2016 election the rise and the fall of the proper alt right, led by Richard Spencer and the right stuff and people and groups like that.
00:13:51.000And the role that Ricky Vaughn played in the rise and fall of the alt right is I think he basically accelerated and facilitated the destruction of a lot of bad actors.
00:14:02.000He was not as nationally prominent, I would say, in 2017 after the inauguration and after the election.
00:14:10.000But in 2017 and 2018, he played a very important role with sort of the remnants, right?
00:14:19.000All the meme war veterans, all that energy from 4chan and from Twitter and from Reddit.
00:14:25.000I think he played a very important role in that community and guiding it away from Wignat type stuff, alt right people back in the days after the inauguration and then the days after Charlottesville.
00:14:37.000He was a big player in the optics wars on my side and on the side of the Irony Bros and American Nationalists, America.
00:15:19.000He was a good looking guy, tall, college educated.
00:15:22.000And, you know, a lot of people said at the time this guy got doxxed, and they said it's really impressive.
00:15:29.000And this is what you strive for is that you don't want to get doxxed, but if you do get doxxed, you want liberals and you want the country to see that when you peel back the layers behind the people that are pro Trump or pro America first or Groypers or whatever, you want them to pull back the layers and see a total Chad.
00:16:03.000And then they look at a very prominent Twitter account like Ricky Vaughn that influenced the election and played a big role in the dissident right.
00:16:10.000And they find that this is like, you know, the epitome of yuppie dumb in Manhattan.
00:16:31.000And this is the first time I've heard about him since then.
00:16:34.000I hadn't heard about him in a long, long time, not since 2018.
00:16:38.000You know, it's been a few years at least.
00:16:41.000And the big news why we're talking about him tonight is earlier this week, he was arrested in Florida because of a meme that he posted during the election five years ago in 2016.
00:17:03.000The man behind the pro Trump Twitter troll account, Ricky Vaughn, was busted in Florida on Wednesday for spreading disinformation during the 2016 presidential election and a scheme to limit black turnout, said officials.
00:17:19.000Douglas Mackey was arrested in West Palm Beach on one charge of conspiracy against rights, for which he faces up to 10 years in prison.
00:17:36.000So they're charging him with conspiracy against rights, presumably voting rights, and he could get up to 10 years in jail for that, for posting a meme.
00:17:48.000It says between September and November 2016, Mackey allegedly conspired with others to use social media messaging to encourage blacks to cast their votes via text message so their ballots wouldn't count, according to Brooklyn federal prosecutors.
00:18:05.000On November 1st, one week before the presidential election that ushered in President Donald Trump's term, Mackey allegedly tweeted an image of a black woman in front of an African Americans for President Hillary sign.
00:18:18.000Written on the photograph was the message Avoid the line, vote from home.
00:18:26.000Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.
00:18:28.000More than 4,900 people, encouraged by the misinformation campaign, cast their vote via text, said officials.
00:18:37.000According to the acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Seth Ducharme, he said, There is no place in public discourse for lies and misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to vote.
00:18:50.000MIT Media Lab ranked him as the 107th most important social media influencer of the presidential election, coming in ahead of NBC News and the Drudge Report.
00:19:02.000So, and that's, of course, a little bit about the relevance, you know, his significance, and that's the charge, that's the news.
00:19:11.000Because five years ago, okay, a little bit short of five years ago, he posted a meme in the 2016 election that said, text your vote to, you know, this number.
00:19:24.000And they say that by posting that meme, he was denying American citizens their right to vote.
00:19:31.000Because he posted this, people are texting this thinking that they voted, allegedly.
00:19:38.000And this means that he is preventing them from exercising their right to vote.
00:20:04.000DOJ has probably been sitting on this for five years.
00:20:08.000Now that Biden is in charge, they whip out all their files, they whip out all their records, all the documents, all the information that they've been collecting for the past five years.
00:20:19.000And now they're just going to start throwing out charges.
00:20:21.000Throwing out charges against every political opponent, conservatives, right wingers, Trump supporters, whatever, you name it, everything that they can find, everything that they have found, everything that they have on file, they're now just going to look through metadata, they're going to look through direct messages, public posts, comment forums, you name it, and they're going to scour the internet for any charge against any Trump supporter they could possibly find.
00:20:52.000You know, it's not just an extension of the Biden administration and their general modus operandi, but it's also an extension of the Capitol riots.
00:21:01.000You know, we have to understand that when these kinds of what it is is political persecution, when these charges are dished out, which are obviously, I mean, this is a ridiculous charge, it doesn't make any sense.
00:21:15.000When this is dished out, this is retaliation, it's punishment, and it's a deterrent.
00:21:23.000And it all has to do with the 2016 election of Donald Trump.
00:21:28.000You know, this is the tail end of the Trump administration.
00:21:31.000And now, or I guess the tail end was last week.
00:21:35.000But now that the Trump administration is over, now they're going to circle back, right, to borrow a phrase, to the initial run in 2016.
00:21:44.000And they're going to find and target everybody that helped Donald Trump get elected initially and punish them.
00:21:50.000Because we've been through this exercise.
00:21:54.000Right, he defeated the system and their planned outcome, and the attempts they made to rig it and to fix it and to manipulate the votes back.
00:22:03.000Originally, Trump beat all the odds, he thwarted the system, he stopped their schemes, or I guess he at least created some obstacles, he delayed some of their plans.
00:22:16.000And they had to let that ride, you know, because and it's not like they didn't try to stop it, I mean, they tried to stop it through impeachment and investigations and all kinds of things.
00:22:27.000They were unsuccessful at dethroning him and getting him out.
00:22:30.000So they had to let it ride for the past four years.
00:22:34.000They had to maintain the facade that, okay, well, the people elected this guy.
00:22:39.000That's not the outcome that they wanted.
00:22:41.000They would have rigged it if they thought that he could have won.
00:22:44.000But they said, okay, well, what do we do now?
00:22:46.000Well, we're just going to do everything we can to co opt, capture the administration, sabotage the administration, throw up obstacles.
00:22:55.000And then once the guy gets out, we'll have our guy elected, Joe Biden.
00:22:59.000And then we're going to go back and we're going to crush Trump.
00:23:02.000We're going to crush all his supporters, target the influencers that helped him get elected.
00:23:09.000And what this does is, of course, it punishes people who dissented against the system.
00:23:14.000It punishes people that challenged the system.
00:23:17.000And it also sends a message to anybody that wants to try to challenge the system again.
00:24:31.000It's the elite media, it's big business, it is the globalist establishment, as we know, that runs all the institutions in the country the deep state, the intelligence community, the big Ivy League schools, Hollywood, academia.
00:24:46.000All these institutions are saying, F with us.
00:25:40.000And where there was nothing before, Donald Trump created this movement of people that truly were challenging the system.
00:25:47.000And we could go back and forth about, yes, the Trump administration was captured by certain special interests.
00:25:53.000We could get into the weeds about the details, but fundamentally, what we're concerned with, and this is the subject, is that Trump started this mass awakening, this populist revolution.
00:26:04.000At the bare minimum, he disrupted the globalist scheme, which would have had Hillary Clinton versus Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton versus Marco Rubio.
00:26:13.000And at the minimum, he disrupted that.
00:26:19.000And because he did that, it has given a message of hope to the people, a message which is look, You're in control of this country.
00:26:29.000We put Donald Trump in office, and you know what that means?
00:26:32.000It means there's a lot more of us than we thought.
00:26:35.000It means that a guy like Donald Trump thinks like we do.
00:26:39.000He's willing to say it, and actually, a lot of people agree with him.
00:26:43.000And actually, a lot of people are willing to vote for him.
00:26:45.000They think he's viable when they said that he was a carnival barker, he was a con man, not serious reality TV show host.
00:26:54.000Not only was somebody like Donald Trump saying what we were saying, but everybody was agreeing, and they were willing to go out to rallies and Talk to each other and cheer for this guy and then go out and vote for him.
00:27:05.000And then we discovered that there's more of us on social media.
00:27:09.000And then in this election, 75 million people vote for Donald Trump again, 10 million more than the first time.
00:27:16.000And so you have to recognize this backlash from the establishment for what it is, which is an act of desperation.
00:27:23.000People have woken up and they've realized that there are a lot of people that are not willing to go along with this and that know what's going on.
00:27:32.000They know the score, and if there's leadership, they're willing to mobilize and do something to thwart this globalist plan for one world government and for all of this.
00:27:43.000The elites know that they can't, you can't arrest 75 million people.
00:27:47.000You can't do to Ricky Vaughn what you're doing to 75 million people.
00:27:50.000You can't do, or rather, you understand what I'm saying.
00:27:53.000You can't do to 75 million people what you're doing to Donald Trump and to all these other leaders.
00:27:59.000But they think that if they strike at the head, if they attack the ringleaders, they attack people like Ricky Vaughn and I'm sure many others, Capitol rioters, other names will come up too.
00:28:10.000They think that other people will go back into their houses and be quiet and not resist and.
00:28:15.000Vote for Nikki Haley and do all of that.
00:28:26.000The two things that underlie the authority of the state, you know, why do we think the federal government has authority to make laws and enforce laws?
00:28:35.000Well, there's two things, two things that underwrite that authority.
00:28:39.000It's the perceived legitimacy of the state to exercise authority, and it is Hard power.
00:28:50.000What this means is, you know, when the government says Joe Biden is the president and these are our legislators and they're going to write the laws and you're going to obey those laws.
00:29:02.000Why does the government have the authority to tell people what to do?
00:29:05.000Well, it's because people in the country perceive that that exercise of authority is legitimate.
00:29:11.000When Biden says, okay, everyone's wearing a mask, the reason that he is able to exercise that authority is because people believe.
00:29:19.000That he is the legitimate figure of authority.
00:29:22.000And when he makes decrees, they have legitimacy.
00:29:25.000We recognize that he is the guy that is going to call the shots because of the Constitution and succession and all these kinds of things coming together.
00:29:34.000It all goes back to the Constitution, the social contract, and then basically this is how things go.
00:29:41.000He descends from this line of leaders going back to George Washington.
00:30:04.000Number two, if people don't follow those laws, if they break the laws, well, then there is force applied.
00:30:12.000The police will show up with guns, the military can show up, or the National Guard.
00:30:18.000So even if you don't believe in the legitimacy, well, you're going to be forced to follow the laws because the government, the state, The authority, they have all the weapons, or they have more of the weapons than everybody else combined.
00:30:31.000All the organized forces working together cannot overpower the force of the state.
00:30:36.000So, why I'm explaining this is because with this past election and even the previous election in 2016, the legitimacy of the government is gone.
00:30:56.000I'm saying that when 80% of Republicans believe that the election was rigged and that Joe Biden is not the rightful president, that means that there is no consensus in the country that the state has legitimacy to exercise authority.
00:31:36.000Well, maybe you don't think we're legitimate, but you're going to go along with it because if you don't, then the police are going to show up.
00:31:43.000Then the military is going to show up.
00:31:45.000The prosecutors are going to come out, and we're going to throw you in jail.
00:31:50.000You can't challenge illegitimacy because now you're in jail or now you're dead, you know, or whatever.
00:31:56.000But that is why this is a scary and a dangerous time because they recognize that across the country, there are large swaths of people that have the potential to become ungovernable.
00:32:09.000That there's a large swath of the population that, if organized and if they mobilized, could present a threat to this monopoly on authority that the government wields.
00:32:18.000So, in order to protect that, in order to keep their authority, they're going to target the elites, they're going to target the biggest threats, you know, the intellectual elite, the financiers, the organizers, and so on, and they're going to take them out of the equation.
00:32:35.000They're going to throw them in jail, they're going to find them, destroy them financially.
00:32:39.000And what's disturbing is that the federal government has the power to do this.
00:32:43.000And some people might say, oh, this charge is laughable, it's silly, it's ridiculous.
00:33:14.000Well, that doesn't mean that Douglas Mackey doesn't have to spend $20,000, $50,000, $100,000 for a legal defense.
00:33:25.000And what kind of average person has $20,000 to $100,000?
00:33:30.000I guess it depends on what you're doing, but what kind of normal average person has tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars laying around that they could put up at a moment's notice for a legal defense against the federal government?
00:33:45.000The government can bring charges against this guy or any person.
00:33:49.000And if you can't pony up and defend yourself with a lawyer, well, you may have a higher chance of being put in jail or you're financially destroyed.
00:34:00.000And what happens if they do it again and a third time and a fourth time?
00:35:14.000They just wrecked this guy from Florida because these assholes were sitting on something for five years, going through Twitter DMs and group chats and all that.
00:35:23.000Instead, what that communicates is they're very, very weak.
00:36:59.000It's going to be very bad things are going to happen if there is conflict in this country, if there is some kind of civil conflict, if there is.
00:37:09.000You know, even just political violence, even sporadic and disconnected political violence.
00:37:48.000If people weren't radicalized exactly one year ago today, but after they've seen the COVID lockdowns and the Black Lives Matter riots and the election fraud and the Capitol siege, and they see the double standard applied to BLM and the Capitol siege, and they see the president banned from Twitter, and they see the stock markets rigged, you think they're radicalized now?
00:38:19.000You know, that's not the doing of Russia or Richard Spencer or the alt right or 4chan or PewDiePie or me or the Groypers or, you know, Hitler.
00:38:30.000I mean, that's not the doing of anything like that.
00:38:33.000That is the doing of the people that are in charge.
00:38:35.000That's the doing of big tech and the feds and the government and the Democrats and Biden.
00:38:42.000They are pushing everybody, and they're getting this equal and opposite reaction where a lot of normie Trump supporters, a lot of people that just want to watch TV, are saying, Wait a minute, what is going on?
00:39:38.000It's about the fact that, in the grand scheme of things, from the end of the Cold War, or maybe even since the end of World War II, you have had this scheme by the elites gradually consolidating power, consolidating control.
00:39:52.000You could see that on full display with big tech and the intelligence community, the deep state, all that kind of stuff.
00:39:58.000There has been this long term overarching plan to consolidate control and power in this country.
00:40:05.000Donald Trump comes along in 2015 and he basically disrupts that.
00:40:11.000Whereas you have this inexorable march towards total control by these elites, Donald Trump stood in front of that and stopped it.
00:40:21.000And he said, No, we're going to put America first.
00:40:25.000We're going to make America great again.
00:40:26.000And he riled up 60 some million people in the first election.
00:40:31.000To go against the media and go against Hillary Clinton and go against the social media algorithms and go against academia and the fact checkers and the pollsters and all this and put this reality TV guy in office who was against and naming globalism.
00:40:48.000And now that he's burned out these past four years, now they want to go back and they want to not only target him as the figurehead, but they want to destroy everybody that enabled him to do that in the first place.
00:41:02.000Number one, to neutralize them, but also to intimidate anybody else who even thinks about trying that from doing it again in the future.
00:41:10.000And what this communicates, like I said, is that their legitimacy is slipping.
00:41:14.000They know it, they feel it, and they resort to force.
00:41:18.000They resort to terror, intimidation, violence.
00:41:38.000This is something that happened in medieval times or the Enlightenment, more accurately, or this is something that happens in communist countries or in the third world.
00:41:48.000In truth, it is the Western democracies which are the most corrupt, the most severe, brutal, merciless in the entire world.
00:41:58.000You know, people think that North Korea is like a joke.
00:43:18.000The oligarchy in this country is less transparent.
00:43:21.000You know, it's more opaque, it is more obscure, it is more shadowy, more vicious, more powerful, more evil than anything going on in Russia, China, North Korea, you know, you name it.
00:43:35.000So, and that is the system that is now striking back against the Trump supporters, striking back against the populists and the nationalists and everybody that has been a part of this insurgency for the past four years.
00:45:00.000And I'm not trying to go full, you know, what about ism or anything like that, but it's just to point out people have real misconceptions about America.
00:45:10.000This country is so, it's not the country that you grew up in.
00:45:16.000The state, this elite apparatus that has hijacked and taken over this country, that's not America.
00:45:26.000And the land from the Pacific to the Atlantic, that is America.
00:45:31.000But this cabal of sick, evil people in Washington, D.C., and Manhattan, and L.A., they are not America.
00:45:39.000And there's nothing wrong with saying that these sick, evil planners and schemers and controllers that are exporting evil and exporting death and war, and they've built up an iron curtain around this country, there's nothing wrong with calling those people out because that's not what America's about.
00:45:57.000America First is not about putting their cartel, their oligarchy first.
00:46:02.000It's not about protecting their control over the planet, their control over this country.
00:46:07.000America first is about putting the American people first, which is us, you know, the real Americans, and people like Ricky Vaughn.
00:46:17.000You know, that's really where the conflict is occurring between this USA corporation, USA, and America.
00:46:53.000And I know that might sound like anti intellectual or stupid or something, but it's a real meaningful distinction.
00:46:59.000You've got these people that have taken over the government, these United States.
00:47:04.000Governmental structures, and then you've got the nation, you've got the people.
00:47:09.000So, this is what it's about, this is what's going on, and we're going to see some messed up stuff coming soon because this is what's going to happen.
00:49:08.000We want to primary the bad guys, get the good guys in, and then write the good laws.
00:49:14.000Legitimately and legally and through the system, we want to get in and write good laws, and then people live by the good laws which originate in D.C., the uncontested capital of our uncontested federal government.
00:51:17.000Everybody's been watching this for the past couple of days, and I'm sure I don't need to tell you what's going on with GameStop.
00:51:25.000I want to get into the fundamentals and explain what's going on, and then obviously we'll get into the events of today, which today was a totally new story.
00:51:34.000I was going to cover this yesterday, and the story I was going to tell yesterday was totally different because today, as we know, they rigged the whole game, and I'll get into what I mean by that.
00:51:46.000So, in case you haven't been following this, there is this big.
00:51:51.000Affair happening on Wall Street right now in the stock market.
00:51:55.000And it originated in a subreddit called Wall Street Bets.
00:52:02.000There's a subreddit called Wall Street Bets where you've got a lot of, I think it's hundreds of thousands of people, tens of thousands of people.
00:52:10.000They're in there and they talk about finance.
00:52:13.000They talk about stocks and stock analysis and things like that.
00:52:17.000And so this Reddit forum, Wall Street Bets, they came up with this plan to buy up GameStop stock.
00:52:25.000Initially, They liked the GameStop stock because they thought that GameStop would appreciate in value.
00:52:33.000GameStop, of course, is a video game brick and mortar retailer.
00:53:31.000And so initially, Reddit is looking at the stock and they see that GameStop has a new board member who is invested in GameStop and they're going to change the direction of the company.
00:53:43.000And they say, you know, GameStop is actually not as bad as people think.
00:53:46.000We're going to buy this because we think that the changes that will be made by this new investor, somebody came in and bought, I think, 10% of the equity, he's going to turn things around and make the company more profitable and more valuable.
00:54:00.000And then they say, well, Looking at GameStop, they realized that major institutional investors have shorted GameStop.
00:54:09.000They find that GameStop, 138% of all GameStop stock has been shorted.
00:54:17.000Meaning that institutional investors, when you short a stock, that means that you're borrowing the stock from an institution, you're selling it in the hopes that the stock will go down in value.
00:54:30.000You buy the stock when the value goes down, you return it to the institutional investor.
00:54:35.000The institution that lent you the stock, and then you pocket the difference.
00:54:39.000So, you know, I'll give you an example like with GameStop.
00:55:24.000It's overly simplified, but you understand.
00:55:27.000So, major institutional investors have shorted this stock.
00:55:31.000And, like I said, this is the short interest in a stock.
00:55:35.000138% of all the GameStop stock that could be publicly traded is being shorted, which means, in other words, that All these investors have borrowed GameStop stock.
00:55:47.000They've sold it, and now they're obligated to buy it back eventually because they all expect it's going to go down.
00:55:52.000When they short the stock, it's driving the price down, and they know they're going to get a sweet deal.
00:55:57.000They're going to buy it back when it's super low, pocket a big difference, bankrupt, and destroy the company, and that's how it goes.
00:56:04.000So initially, these people on Reddit and Wall Street Bets say, well, GameStop is actually just a good value buy.
00:56:11.000We're going to buy it, and it's going to appreciate.
00:56:13.000Well, then they say, GameStop is the most.
00:56:16.000Shorted stock in the American stock market.
00:56:19.000There's no other stock in the entire, on any exchange, which is more shorted than GameStop.
00:56:26.000And what they've now done is something called a short squeeze.
00:56:32.000They figure out that if you buy GameStop stock and drive the price up, you know, obviously you buy a stock and the price goes up because there's only so much of it.
00:56:42.000They know that if they buy GameStop stock and they drive the price up, Artificially higher than even what they think it's worth, which is more than what it's at, they drive it way, way up.
00:56:54.000They know that all these investors that are shorting it are now obligated to buy it back at the higher price.
00:57:01.000If these institutional investors have borrowed GameStop stock and sold it, expecting it to go down and they have to buy it back and return it, if these Reddit investors are buying it up and driving the price up, driving the price up past.
00:57:17.000What the short sellers sold it for initially, now the short sellers have to buy it back at a loss.
00:57:24.000If the short sellers sold it, what they borrowed, at let's say $10 and the stock goes up to $50, well, now they're obligated to buy it back at a $40 loss per share.
00:57:38.000This is what the Wall Street Bets subreddit determines.
00:57:42.000And they also understand the nature of this that they drive the price up, they hold on to it, there's only so many shares, and You know, there's more shares that have been shorted than there are shares even available to be traded.
00:57:56.000So they know that there are lots of investors that have to buy back these shares.
00:58:01.000So you drive the price up, and not only is the price being driven up because people are buying in because they see the opportunity because you have to be bought out, but once these investors buy the stocks back in order to return them, that drives the price up even further.
00:58:18.000In other words, they pump up the stock, the people that have shorted the stock have to buy it back.
00:58:23.000When they buy it back, the price goes up even further.
00:58:27.000And then all the other people that have shorted the stock have to buy it back at even higher and higher prices.
00:58:32.000And they're buying it back from the people that bought into it when it was very low.
00:58:37.000They're buying it back from people from the subreddit that bought it when it was being crushed by these giant financial institutions.
00:59:02.000It says, quote, put simply, hedge funds looking to capitalize on a failing business can borrow shares in a company, immediately sell them, and ideally buy them back later at a lower price to pay back the original lender while pocketing the difference.
00:59:29.000Profiting off a failing business may seem either a canny move or the epitome of vulture capitalism, but it's a common practice.
00:59:37.000Wall Street's top investing firms even help each other identify stocks right for the picking, as Citron Research did when it deemed GameStop a failing mall based retailer in terminal decline.
00:59:48.000Citron Research and Melvin Capital both bought tens of millions of dollars worth of short positions in GameStop, but soon learned the hard way that in short selling, there's no end to the amount of money one can lose.
01:00:00.000And that's because there's no ceiling on how high a stock can go.
01:00:05.000Theoretically, the stock can go, you know, Thousands, tens of thousands, millions of dollars.
01:00:10.000There's no limit to how much, to how high the value can go.
01:00:14.000And if you're a short seller, you're obligated to buy it back at any price.
01:00:19.000So, in theory, there's a possibility for infinite losses because you're buying it at one price.
01:00:26.000And if it goes up, well, there's no ceiling, there's no limit to how high it can go, theoretically.
01:00:31.000You know, you could get into practical terms, but there's big opportunity for losses.
01:00:36.000This is what the subreddit is exploiting.
01:00:40.000They're squeezing the people that have shorted the stock by doing this.
01:00:46.000It says the 2 million members of Reddit's Wall Street Bets community took an interest in GameStop back in August when they noticed the arrival of pet supply e-tailer Chewie's co-founder Ryan Cohen to its board, signaling there was some life in the company yet.
01:01:01.000When they noticed that Melvin Capital and Citron had bought the stock short, they decided to start buying, pumping up its value, partly to make a buck and partly to punish the hedge funds.
01:01:12.000For profiting off the death spiral of a store ingrained in their childhood memories.
01:01:17.000Throughout January, GameStop's value shot up from $18 per share to $334 on Wednesday.
01:01:25.000As hedge funds managers whined and raged on television and Twitter, the Wall Street Bets community dug their heels in and continued to buy.
01:01:33.000Both funds took a beating with rumors of Melvin Capital's bankruptcy circulating on Tuesday, according to Melvin manager Gabe Plotkin.
01:01:42.000The fund needed a bailout of nearly $3 billion to cover its losses before it closed its position that afternoon.
01:01:49.000Citron's Andrew Left said on Wednesday that he had managed to close his position at a loss of 100%.
01:01:57.000Short sellers are sitting on estimated losses of $70.87 billion from their short positions in U.S. companies so far this year, according to financial data analytics firm Ortex on Thursday.
01:02:18.000I think that's actually not as good of an explanation as I just provided, but that's the fundamentals of what's going on because a lot of people don't understand it.
01:02:27.000A lot of people think that, oh, everyone's just buying the stock, and if everyone buys it, then it'll just keep going up.
01:02:51.000They buy in and they see the price fluctuating and they panic sell.
01:02:55.000Because a lot of people think this is just a pump and dump, meaning people buy in, the price goes up, and then you sell, and then you make lots of money.
01:03:07.000Because ultimately, a pump and dump scheme is a Ponzi scheme.
01:03:11.000You know, let's say people, without the short selling, right, without the overly leveraged short selling going on, let's say you buy GameStop stock at $10 and you go out and you convince everybody in America to buy GameStop stock and it goes up to $1,000.
01:03:28.000And then you sell it, and then you profit massively.
01:03:31.000And then other people sell it because you bought in at 10, and then the first thousand people to buy in bought it at 15, and then the next thousand people bought in at 20, and the next thousand people bought in at 30.
01:03:44.000You want to be the first one to get in.
01:03:46.000And then as more and more people buy in, then the value goes up and up and up.
01:03:50.000You take your profits, people begin to pull their profits out, and then you've got people that bought in at the very top.
01:03:56.000They're the ones that are subsidizing the gains of the people that bought in at the bottom.
01:04:15.000It's not like the stock is just going up because everybody's buying it, it's going up and people are buying it because institutional investors are obligated to buy it back because the stock is oversold.
01:04:32.000That have been shorted that are in existence.
01:04:35.000And the reason how this works is because you'll have an institution that lends out a stock to an institution to short, and then that institution lends it out to another.
01:04:48.000You know, the shares in GameStop are being essentially inflated.
01:04:54.000So there's more people who have basically overly leveraged the stock to the point where there's not enough stock for all of them to manage.
01:05:03.000So, Point being, they have to buy back the stock.
01:05:06.000You buy in GameStop, and somewhere, whether it's Citron or it's Melvin or it's another hedge fund, they've got to buy it.
01:05:15.000So when you're driving up the price to $300, $400, $500, of course GameStop isn't worth that.
01:05:21.000Of course, GameStop is not a million, billion dollar company like the stock price suggests.
01:05:28.000But the price is being driven up, and people are pouring into it still, not with the expectation that it's going to go up further because of the value of the company or like it's a pump and dump scheme.
01:05:38.000But because they know that when they drive it up to $500, the short sellers have got to buy it back because there's only so many shares.
01:05:46.000They've got to buy it back to execute their contract, right?
01:06:39.000As long as you hold on to it, They have to buy it back at a really high price.
01:06:42.000Now, if you sell it, you're giving them what they want.
01:06:46.000If you're selling it and the value goes down, well, then they're going to rush to buy it at a discount to close out of their short position.
01:07:08.000And so I want to say, though, when it comes to Wall Street bets, bear in mind that this is a profit seeking enterprise.
01:07:17.000People didn't get into this initially, I don't think, because they saw an opportunity for a short squeeze.
01:07:23.000Initially, Reddit looked at GameStop and they said, GameStop will appreciate in value.
01:07:28.000If I buy it low, I can sell it high later because this Ryan Cohen guy who's now on the board is going to turn the company around and make it more valuable.
01:07:57.000If it's a pump and dump, you're taking it from the people that buy in late.
01:08:01.000If it's a short squeeze, when you cash out, when you buy in early and pump this up, and then you sell it to a short seller who is finishing their contract, right?
01:08:11.000They're closing out of their position, then you're taking their money.
01:08:14.000Your profit comes from them, it's from their loss.
01:08:21.000They bought the stock and they're doing the short squeeze because they want to make money.
01:08:25.000But at the same time, it's also now a vindictive thing.
01:08:29.000Because it's not just about making money in the stock market.
01:08:31.000It's about the fact that they're punishing hedge funds and they're making their profit from the losses of very wealthy, very bad people in Wall Street.
01:08:45.000So there's this political narrative onto it as well, which is actually fascinating.
01:08:50.000Because this is just like a market play, which should be apolitical.
01:08:55.000I mean, this should be something that is just purely about numbers and about profits and about dollars and cents.
01:09:00.000But because of, I guess, the highly charged political atmosphere that we're in, because of the background of everything else that's going on, now you're pitting retail investors, which are college students and workers, regular everyday people, not institutional investors, not brokers, not day traders, but retail investors, amateurs, people that are not professionals, people on Reddit.
01:09:27.000They came up with this plan, they outsmarted the elites, something that they didn't prepare for, they didn't think about.
01:09:33.000They've bought up this stock, and now Wall Street has to buy it back at a huge loss.
01:09:38.000And you've got people that are becoming millionaires overnight, making tons of money, and they're doing that while inflicting huge losses on Melvin.
01:09:48.000Melvin is spending $3 billion, $70 billion across the economy is going out from the institutions and the hedge funds, and it's going to Redditors, it's going to gamers, it's going to college kids, it's going to people that are amateur investors.
01:10:05.000Browsing forums like Reddit or 4chan Biz and all that kind of stuff.
01:10:11.000And so now it's not just about we want to get into this for profit.
01:10:15.000We want to get into this to make them lose.
01:10:17.000We're getting into this because we didn't get a stimulus check and COVID shut down the economy and they took away our unemployment bonus and they get richer and there's more billionaires and they've made trillions of dollars since the lockdown.
01:10:32.000And if you won't make this work for us, F you.
01:10:55.000And it's kind of amazing how that evolved because this is something that, and I was just saying this a couple of weeks ago about Trump leaving office.
01:11:06.000I said, as time goes on, there are going to be black swan, unpredictable events like this.
01:11:12.000They'll become more frequent and more intense because of the nature of this globalist experiment.
01:11:24.000Things are moving so quickly, things are so tense, tensions are so high that these kinds of disruptive black swan events, conflicts, flashpoints, they're going to become more numerous, more frequent, and they're going to increase in intensity.
01:11:40.000If you thought, you know, Black Lives Matter 2012 was bad or whenever Trayvon Martin killed, welcome to Black Lives Matter 2020.
01:11:50.000If you thought that Occupy Wall Street was bad, well, take a look at GameStop.
01:11:53.000If you thought that Ron Paul Revolution was a big deal, how about Donald Trump?
01:11:57.000You know, that's just a little bit of a survey of how, just in the past 10 years, these kinds of disruptive events are becoming more significant and they're happening more frequently.
01:12:10.000And this is one of these things where nobody could have planned and said, oh, I know we'll do a short squeeze and there'll be this narrative about the little guy versus Wall Street and then we'll get it trending on Twitter.
01:12:21.000These are things that are just going to unfold because there is animosity against the system.
01:12:29.000Conditions are such where people are uncomfortable, so they're agitated, and their agitation, their frustration is directed against the elites, not against partisans, but against the system broadly.
01:12:44.000That's why you get something like this.
01:12:46.000It's not just a normal stock market play, it's not a feel good story, it's war.
01:13:20.000And that's how everything's going to become now and in the future.
01:13:24.000Everything's going to turn into something like this, you know, whether it's elections for sure, even finances, social media, gaming, you know, all these things are now going to turn into revolt.
01:13:36.000Cultural spaces, financial spaces, political spaces, this is what it's about now.
01:14:25.000But the story changed today because all these.
01:14:30.000Institutional investors and the hedge funds and all of them, they have all conspired to shut this down.
01:14:38.000And they did that because as of last night, all these Redditors and people that are involved in this were saying, we can easily replicate this.
01:14:46.000Take a look at all the other stocks that have a lot of short positions.
01:14:51.000Look at AMC, Nokia, Blackberry, Bed Bath Beyond.
01:14:56.000Look at all these other stocks which are in a similar position with GameStop.
01:15:00.000They have lots of short positions, low price.
01:15:04.000If we buy up all these other stocks, we could do the same thing with GameStop.
01:15:07.000And we could replicate this across the entire market and totally blow up these hedge funds and enrich ourselves in the process.
01:15:51.000It did hit $500 for one share of GameStop.
01:15:55.000And so we're poised for an even further bloodbath, no end in sight.
01:16:00.000It's a total catastrophe for Wall Street.
01:16:03.000So the stock market opens, you know, 9 30 Eastern Time, and, you know, these stocks are going up.
01:16:10.000And then you got a lot of people that want to buy in.
01:16:13.000They log into Robinhood, they log into TD Ameritrade, they log into a few different platforms, and they find that they can't trade these stocks.
01:16:22.000It turns out that Robinhood today pulled the plug on trading for GameStop, AMC, and Nokia.
01:16:31.000And they said not simply that you cannot trade these stocks, like you can't buy or sell them, they say you can't buy these stocks.
01:16:42.000So, Robinhood, if you don't know, is an online brokerage firm.
01:17:16.000Well, Robinhood comes along, and Robinhood is this mobile app, and it says you can buy and sell stocks with no fees.
01:17:23.000And it's easy to set up, and you don't need to have a big account balance to open up an account, and you could start trading stocks once your bank account gets approved.
01:17:31.000So, Robinhood is a very popular brokerage firm where people can buy stocks for people that are retail investors.
01:17:38.000A retail investor, like I said, is an amateur.
01:17:41.000So, it's very popular for college students, for working class people, amateurs.
01:17:47.000Robinhood is where the Redditors are buying the stocks, Robinhood is where the college kids, you know, all these people that are using Reddit to screw over the institutions.
01:17:58.000Today, when they were poised for $500 GameStop shares and $25 AMC shares and $60 Bed Bath Beyond shares, Robinhood says, You can't buy GameStop.
01:18:30.000In the first place, this prevents a stock from going up any further.
01:18:35.000If he can't buy the stock, you can't drive the price further up.
01:18:39.000If he can't drive the price further up, the hedge fund's losses are mitigated and your profits are mitigated too as a result.
01:18:47.000Another thing happens when people see that you can't buy the stock and they see that the stock price can't go up, well, where does it go then?
01:18:57.000If the stock price can't go up because people can't buy it, where's it going to go?
01:20:29.000It's clear that they're manipulating the market.
01:20:32.000They're manipulating the price of these stocks, particular stocks, and they're manipulating the direction of the stocks.
01:20:38.000You know, if they banned selling, then the price would go up.
01:20:41.000If they banned buying, the price would go down.
01:20:44.000And they could do that to whatever stock they decide to apply that arbitrary restriction to.
01:20:49.000And it wasn't just Robinhood, Robinhood was the first one to do it.
01:20:53.000And then TD Ameritrade did it, and then E-Trade did it, and then Cash App did it, and then Webull did it.
01:21:00.000I heard reports that Vanguard was giving people a hard time.
01:21:03.000Schwab, I don't know if that's true though, but I heard reports that that was happening.
01:21:06.000But confirmed were those four that I just listed and even some others.
01:21:12.000And so, what this represents is a concerted conspiracy, deliberate, on the part of these major financial institutions to shut down the short squeeze.
01:21:23.000When the hedge funds start losing money and you start winning money, They change the rules in the middle of the game and the situation's reversed because that's not allowed to happen.
01:21:35.000The stock market is designed for the rich people to make money.
01:21:38.000It's designed for hedge funds and private equity and it's designed for the banks to make money and BlackRock.
01:21:44.000It is not designed for you to make money.
01:21:46.000You are going to put your money in an index fund and you're going to get an 8% annualized return.
01:21:54.000And leave it to the hedge funds to make the big bets, leave it to George Soros to destroy the pound.
01:21:59.000Leave it to the people that have the billions and millions to make the real funny money, and you're going to buy an index fund.
01:22:05.000You're going to buy Coca Cola and get a dividend every quarter, right?
01:22:09.000I mean, that's what we're supposed to do.
01:22:11.000And we're supposed to make a little bit over the course of a lifetime so that we could retire with a modest sum of money to live out our closing 10 years in a retirement home or whatever in Florida.
01:22:42.000Robinhood and Citadel do big business because the way that Robinhood works, how Robinhood lets you trade stocks without paying fees is they hand off the stock transaction to a company like Citadel or they hand it off to, you know, somebody else.
01:23:00.000And that somebody else then will conduct that transaction.
01:23:05.000At a price that is different than where people buy it at on Robinhood.
01:23:10.000So, in other words, you say, I want to buy Apple at $112, let's say, or whatever it is, $140.
01:23:18.000And Robinhood will pass off that transaction to another institution, and that institution will say, Let's execute the contract.
01:24:23.000They're selling the transaction to another institution so that when they execute the transaction, they're not executing it in favorable terms.
01:25:39.000She calls up the SEC, Securities Exchange Commission, and the SEC now is looking into Reddit.
01:25:48.000Now, the SEC is going to subpoena the Redditors, and they're going to look at Robinhood, and they're going to see if there's any crimes being committed by the people that are conducting the short squeeze.
01:26:01.000As opposed to Citadel, as opposed to Robinhood, where there's obvious corruption, where they're manipulating the price of the stock.
01:26:08.000Robinhood is clearly, you know, there's some conspiracy going on because Robinhood, a brokerage firm, is intervening to manipulate the price of a stock.
01:26:20.000It just so happens that one of their biggest customers or clients is Citadel, who's being killed by that particular stock or series of stocks.
01:26:31.000And as far as regulatory or legal consequences goes, the person that's enforcing that, that's in charge of that, is in bed with the company that's getting killed here.
01:27:24.000And then the regulators get involved and they investigate you and not the people that manipulated the stock.
01:27:30.000And now they're going to make new regulations and they're going to say, you can't do this anymore.
01:27:35.000Now they're all going to adjust and now this is never going to happen again.
01:27:39.000And they'll probably come out with some stuff about how this was an attack.
01:27:43.000Now they'll attribute malicious or illegal intent on the part of the people that conspire to make money in the stock market by doing a short squeeze against Melvin and Citadel.
01:27:56.000You know, they're going to come out and say, This is an unprecedented attack on our free market.
01:29:18.000Yeah, we don't like how things are going.
01:29:19.000Yeah, we're just going to blow up the whole system because we're going to get Trump in office and he's going to pull us out of the UN and the climate deals and end the wars and blow up NAFTA and pull us out of NATO.
01:29:31.000And he's going to build a big wall on the southern border.
01:29:35.000And he's going to cut all our taxes and be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.
01:31:07.000Oh, what's on your mind is that the system is run by satanic pedophiles?
01:31:12.000Well, your account's banned, actually.
01:31:15.000You made a YouTube video talking about how Hillary Clinton is sick and Joe Biden has dementia and that people are Talking about pizza and they're really talking about raping kids.
01:31:26.000You can't have a YouTube account anymore.
01:31:28.000You can't have a YouTube account anymore.
01:31:30.000You're not getting your money, your ad money.
01:32:02.000You can't find it through a search query.
01:32:04.000You can't find it in a recommended section because that kid with the bad teeth from the New York Times said that he fell down the alt right rabbit hole a few years ago through watching Stefan Molyneux videos.
01:32:28.000Well, if you are a gangster ghetto black guy, you know, if you are the most blackest black guy in Chicago, we're going to give you a million dollars to reopen your business.
01:32:39.000And if you're white, you know, we're going to send the bulldozers ourselves to knock over whatever remains that the blacks left unfinished, right?
01:32:47.000I mean, if you're a white guy, we're going to send BLM to break your windows.
01:32:51.000And then the government will just, out of pity, send in a wrecking ball to finish the job.
01:32:57.000This is what they're talking about now COVID relief.
01:33:00.000Will go to blacks, Indians, Chinese, Filipinos, Spicks, Muslims, Jews, faggots.
01:35:43.000Go up against Citroën and Raytheon, and go up against NATO and the DOD and the Democratic Party.
01:35:51.000Go up against any one of these giant public private multinational entities, you'll never win, you'll never get anywhere.
01:35:59.000And that's the way it's going to work now.
01:36:01.000You got people at the top living in Elysium, and then we are living down here at the bottom at the mercy of very powerful institutions that outnumber us greatly.
01:36:13.000That's what this is about ultimately rigged system.
01:36:18.000And, you know, once again, you've got a problem with legitimacy.
01:36:20.000Why would people live in a rigged system?
01:36:23.000You know, why do people pay taxes in a rigged system?
01:36:27.000Why do people go to work every day and invest their meager paycheck into the SP 500 index fund?
01:36:33.000Why do people send their kids to school and vote and participate in any of this if we can't even win?
01:36:42.000You know, maybe that was the biggest thing that was holding us back this illusion of the American dream, this illusion that we vote, oh, we're going to get something different, the illusion that you're going to.
01:37:51.000It's like when in the Truman Show, he goes on that boat and then he crashes into the edge of the world and he opens up a door and it's just a giant dome.
01:39:00.000And, you know, how do people tell themselves a story about the country after all this has happened?
01:39:08.000How do people tell themselves a story about themselves in this country that, well, we're all part of this American dream and we pledge allegiance and.
01:39:16.000And people are overseas dying for freedom or something, and we're paying our taxes because we get these public services.
01:39:22.000Like, how can people tell themselves a story about their life in this country that makes sense when you realize it's all fake?
01:39:30.000When you realize it is all a big conspiracy, that what it really is is you're just being subjugated, you're being dominated, you're a peasant, you're a slave, and they are controlling everything.
01:39:47.000That's a very different story that you have to tell yourself about yourself now.
01:40:13.000And maybe politicians don't get this, maybe they do get this, but these meta narratives kind of matter.
01:40:19.000People don't really think it through in the terms I'm explaining it.
01:40:22.000But ultimately, like these things have consequences.
01:40:26.000It actually has implications, you know?
01:40:30.000It's sort of like people talk about how evolution changes people's perspective on the world because it tells people that they weren't created by God, they evolved from soup.
01:40:43.000And even though people don't think about that every day, if they believe that in the back of their mind, it really changes their disposition because you go from a worldview of, Well, like God created me, the world revolves around humanity.
01:40:54.000And we have this very prominent role in the events of everything that exists, right?
01:41:02.000We're not just like carbon on a rock somewhere.
01:41:07.000We're the center of the story of everything that ever was.
01:41:15.000You know, I was a rock and then I was a lizard and now I'm a guy.
01:41:19.000And in the same way, that's just an analogy.
01:41:22.000Things like this have implications, even though people don't think it through all the way, and maybe they don't think about it all the time.
01:41:28.000Communicating to the people in this way, hey, no, the stock market's really rigged.
01:41:32.000Not like, hey, well, the rich get richer.
01:41:44.000When you tell people the elections don't count, the votes don't matter, that stays with people, that stays in the back of their minds.
01:41:51.000It fundamentally changes their disposition.
01:41:54.000When these things happen, All the time, when these things happen like a dozen times in three months, that really changes people's disposition.
01:42:03.000And things that weren't going to happen or were impossible a year ago or two years ago now suddenly become very possible.
01:42:10.000And I, you know, maybe I don't need to elaborate on what that is, but when I talk about people are getting radicalized, I mean, how can you not?
01:42:17.000How can you not when you see what's going on?
01:42:51.000And, you know, like I said, it's going to happen more and more because these little revolts will keep happening because people are furious and people are going to throw off the yoke of the elites.
01:43:04.000And every time and every way and every place that they do that, they're going to be met with this kind of overwhelming opposition.
01:43:10.000They're going to get crushed, they're going to get screwed over in the same way.
01:43:14.000And, like, you know, this creates a very antagonistic relationship between the people and the elites.
01:43:22.000And that is, that's like the genesis of a real conflict.
01:43:25.000That's a big problem on their hands, you know, that they're egging this on.
01:46:10.000So AOC quote tweets a tweet about what's going on with Robinhood.
01:46:15.000And she says today, This is unacceptable.
01:46:18.000We now need to know more about Robinhood's decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stocks as they see fit.
01:46:28.000As a member of the Financial Services Committee, I'd support a hearing if necessary.
01:46:34.000Ted Cruz quote tweets that and says, Fully agree to AOC's tweet.
01:46:40.000AOC tweets that, and she replies to Ted Cruz.
01:46:44.000I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there's common ground, but you almost had me murdered three weeks ago, so you can sit this one out.
01:46:53.000Happy to work with almost any other GOP that aren't trying to get me killed.
01:46:58.000In the meantime, if you want to help, you can resign.
01:47:02.000So AOC says, Yeah, let's prosecute these guys.
01:47:07.000And AOC's like, Actually, If you want to help me, you can resign.
01:47:12.000You tried to get me killed because you're like a terrorist.
01:47:16.000And I saw that exchange, and to me, that is so emblematic of how this dynamic has gone for years.
01:47:23.000Time and again, and maybe you don't know what I'm talking about, but a lot of you probably will.
01:47:29.000Time and again, there's this impulse, this instinct within the populist right to appeal to the populist left, which is really an oxymoron, but they think it's out there, and they're desperately trying to.
01:49:59.000There's populists that they desperately want the left to befriend them.
01:50:03.000And, you know, they drop right wing populists, drop the pretense that they hate leftists at the drop of the hat if they think that leftists are a little bit sympathetic.
01:50:14.000In other words, right wing people are going to say, you know, the left is evil.
01:52:16.000Right wing populists set themselves up for this.
01:52:20.000You know, at the first sign that leftists might cooperate, they leap and they get on their hands and knees and they say, hey, let's work together.
01:52:44.000Be a muscular, assertive right with convictions and rally your own people.
01:52:50.000I mean, why waste time rallying leftists who disagree with us on everything when we could rally people in the middle, right wing people?
01:53:00.000And, like, think of it there is no reason that there is a natural or inevitable alliance between left wing populists and right wing populists.
01:54:41.000They're professionals there in academia.
01:54:45.000And their ideology is parroted by the mainstream media, by Hollywood entertainment, and by all the major think tanks and NGOs in the State Department.
01:55:41.000That's almost as catchy as Make America Great Again, multi ethnic working class populism.
01:55:47.000And the pitch now for the Republican Party is that we have to transcend conservatism, appeal to leftists, appeal to working class blacks, and whatever.
01:55:58.000They say, like Tucker does, that race is a distraction and class is everything.
01:56:04.000Race is something that the elites use to divide us, and there's no salience beyond that.
01:56:09.000What really matters, and the only thing that matters, is class.
01:56:12.000The only thing that matters is economics.
01:56:15.000And it's interesting, but it's just wrong.
01:56:36.000Blacks and whites and liberals and conservatives, they're distinct tribes with distinct tribal identities and distinct cultures and distinct beliefs and all of that.
01:56:45.000The idea that all of that is just a construct I mean, who's the leftist here?
02:00:16.000You gave up now to instead of having George Soros run a dictatorship, now fat gay retards, Ian Kuczynski's are going to run the dictatorship, right?
02:00:25.000Now we're going to elect Hassan Piker as president of the Socialist States of America.
02:01:05.000Those hardcore left wing populists, Antifa, Prague, the Social Democrats, Democratic Socialists, I mean, if you've met them, we know who they are.
02:02:20.000This is the longest show of my entire life, maybe the longest show that has ever been done by anybody.
02:02:28.000So let me take a look at our super chats.
02:02:30.000I'm going to blast through these at lightning speed and try to finish them as quickly as possible because I feel like trash and I'm a little hungry.
02:06:45.000I don't know if I can even afford to attend AFPEC anymore.
02:06:47.000This movement is one of the few positive things in my life.
02:06:50.000Don't usually do this kind of thing, but some prayers will be appreciated, fellas.
02:06:54.000I'm honestly, I don't know if I'm going to do that.
02:06:58.000I mean, you maybe just take a quick look around at your life and maybe take stock of what you have.
02:07:07.000I mean, after the three weeks that I've had, somebody's going to come to me and say, Oh, my pet died, and maybe I'll lose my job, and say, Pray for me.
02:08:21.000I'm not trying to be callous or anything, but I mean, I have just had, like, you would not believe the week that I've had.
02:08:28.000And not like it's a competition or anything, but it's like, look, we're all going to have to kind of grow a pair because this country is going to hell fast.
02:08:37.000And, you know, it's a tough world out there.
02:09:50.000Ozzy Groypers says, Nick, will you be taking advantage of Biden's financial support for minority owned businesses, either for your merch store business or whatever the show is incorporated as?
02:10:17.000Raul says, I don't know how people don't realize that we basically have regime state media when all six major networks, except Tucker on Fox, repeat the same talking points.
02:12:13.000Somebody bought Dogecoin or somebody was holding on to Dogecoin from a while ago, and now they're like, wouldn't it be funny if we all put money in Dogecoin?
02:12:21.000And then they get rich and they sell all their stuff, and then you're left with the shit coin, and no short sellers are going to come in and buy it from you.
02:12:27.000So, no, don't take money out of the market from AMC, AMC, and GameStop and Bed Bath Beyond.
02:12:37.000Don't take your money out of there where short sellers have to buy it.
02:12:41.000And put it in a Ponzi scheme shitcoin.
02:13:40.000Kansas Zoomer says, The only frustrating thing I feel about GameStop, AMC, Deal is that normies don't understand what the real struggle is.
02:13:50.000Oh, it's about eat the rich, or ha ha, screw those rich white men.
02:13:53.000Most people don't even know why this is a good thing, or even who the real enemies are.
02:14:19.000For us, it's about making it hurt for people that are rigging the country, people that are, you know, taking over America and are looting the country.
02:14:46.000I mean, we're punishing these super wealthy speculators that go from business to business, like I said, destroying them and then selling them for parts.
02:14:56.000And people think it's like, no, it's about eat the rich, it's about you're rich, so I don't like you.
02:15:26.000Super Lionheart says, Boomers in the Malkin livestream were saying they'd never turn their backs on Israel, even after you plainly explain the double thing and how they'd say America first for every other country.
02:15:37.000This was because of their quote, Christian faith.
02:15:40.000The Jews kill Jesus and hate Christians.
02:16:21.000In other words, once Christ came and established a new covenant with God, his followers, his believers became the new Israel, you know, the new people of God, the Christians, not the Hebrews, not the people that live in Palestine, not the people, you know, that deny Christ.
02:17:42.000There are people that were for Obama and then voted for Trump.
02:17:45.000And as far as I'm concerned, if you voted for Trump, you're a right wing populist, you know?
02:17:50.000So, trying to appeal the leftists where they are is just a losing battle.
02:17:55.000You could be a right wing populist and, incidentally, win the support of true populists on the left, of which I don't think there are very many.
02:18:04.000But a viable strategy is not to say, hey, AOC, let's team up.
02:19:36.000Stargazer says, Hey, Nick, did you see the bill that Sheila Jackson introduced today that will require universal gun registration and a searchable database available to the general public?
02:20:16.000Irish says, an important angle for the Ricky Vaughn story is whether or not his arrest and prosecution will be a one time message to make an example, or whether it will be a part of an extended campaign to directly target influential actors legally.
02:20:28.000It is definitely, definitely, 100% the first of many.
02:20:33.000It's an extension of the Capitol riots, as far as I'm concerned.
02:21:07.000James Farmer says when the time comes, will you make an endorsement list for the 22 midterms, even if Trump gets pushed into the wrong endorsement by McCarthy and McConnell, will know what to do.
02:26:35.000Yeah, but Kamala, that makes a lot of sense.
02:26:39.000Ashkenazi Groyper says these short institutional investors are using taxpayer dollars through bailouts to bankrupt American companies and steal money from American investors.
02:28:13.000I'm just trudging through this sludge.
02:28:16.000But I mean, holy cow, man, these are rough.
02:28:21.000Cynics says if worst comes to worst and people are attacked, then at the very least leftists are getting just a taste of what we've been experiencing for years.
02:28:29.000And that might just wake at least a few people up.
02:28:31.000Yeah, then that, hey, we can only hope for that.
02:31:32.000Groyper says, Happy to have your back.
02:31:34.000I certainly missed your show for the past two days, but during that time, I looked up a compilation of your rants, which had me in stitches.
02:32:12.000Anime rightist says right wing movements are always more successful than the left.
02:32:16.000The BLM protest was nothing like our march on the Capitol, and Occupy Wall Street didn't do anything like what we did this week to these hedge fund tycoons.
02:32:24.000Yeah, it's totally true because the right wing is real.
02:36:12.000It's like, what if we sang this fun song?
02:36:15.000Didn't you just bitch us out for a million years because we wear a Halloween costume?
02:36:21.000And now they're like, no, everyone can sing it.
02:36:23.000There was even this guy on TikTok who was like, sea shanties, we stole that from black slaves because black slaves sang songs on ships, and we took it from them, and like, you know.
02:46:13.000It's doubly refutable because Barack Obama is a homosexual who likes men.
02:46:21.000So he would not have sex with Kamala Harris because Kamala Harris is a woman and Barack Obama is a gay man who has sex with other men.
02:46:29.000So, you know, I would buy he was having sex with guys.
02:46:33.000He was having some kind of a tryst with other men because he is a same sex attracted, gay, homosexual man who is Muslim and wasn't born here.
02:47:38.000MB says Newton Lower Falls Groypers meet on Worcester Street tomorrow night at the high school if you want to have a meetup and watch Nick's show.
02:48:08.000Absolute Recoil says, coming back from Miami last year, I was at a family dinner and happened to show some photos around the table, and my mom asked if you were Russian.
02:51:47.000And obviously, even a group of 10 people, you don't all have the same views or the same objectives, but directionally, there is some consistency.
02:51:56.000Now, between right wing people and left wing people, is there enough consistency for there to be a coherent whole for that to even make sense?
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